Why did you choose the profession you did?

I know many people have various characters/professions, but from what I can tell everyone has a favorite/main character or the first one they ever created. So my question is, why did you go with that particular profession? This could be from your favorite character to the one you play most often to your oldest one.

My oldest, favorite, and main character is, of course, Tender Wolf. She's a ranger and I wanted a ranger since the beginning because my fiance said that is what gets a pet. I love animals so I had to have a pet with me. Over the years, I got used to being a ranger and loving it so much that at once time my whole account was only rangers. But eventually I deleted all but my main and now have one character of each profession (10 profs, 12 char slots so I have 2 rangers and 2 mesmers).

In addition to the pet I love being able to use a bow and fight from a distance because I don't like the up-close battles. But to sum it all up, the reason I chose ranger back in the day was only because it is the only profession where you could have a pet.

What about everyone else?

My fav, is ele. Why? Because after making a sin (first char I ever created) I wanted more dmg, so I of course went with the master of the elements. Plus fire magic sounded really awesome. After having so much fun with "nuking" i couldn't stay away from my ele and now he's my main and I use him for any elite or HM area, just cuz I know he can get the job done

My first character (warrior) I chose because I always liked getting up close to the enemy and being in the middle of everything :P, my second main (ele) was really only made for farming but I grew to love playing Fire and Earth magic, Fire because I like to blow shit up and see lots of numbers , and earth because I can do reasonable damage / shut down melee / support my team at the same time

Mines similar to Da Rk Bl Ad E, choose a warrior cuz I love getting up close and fighting through it. Thats just me, my second is a assassin. Same reason love getting up close and in front to fight.

Ele, because she makes fire duh.

I made a Ritualist for my first character. I had a blast with it
Until I finished Factions. Then I suddenly stopped playing with him. All I needed to get him going again really, was a good, fun and slightly challenging build to play.
I made him a pure resto build, was fun for a month or two then.. Meh. But, I'm working on a new one rght now
I choose the Ritualist as my first character because I thought they looked cool, they can heal And do decent damage.

My... 5th or so character was my Warrior, which now is my main and have gotten through all campaigns. I enjoy it much much more than the Ritualist.
I choose a Warrior because I wanted to try something other than casting/ranged classes. When playing through Factions (the starting campaign for most of my chars, including my warrior) I discovered that I find it much more fun to be in the middle of the heat than a bit outside.
So now all my chars in RPG's are some sort of close-combat class
Warrior Imo, is the most fun of all professions

Edit: Although I love warriors in GW. I truly hate the assassins... To weak for my playstyle...

Warrior was my main choice simply because of its natural place of being a critical, basic team member. i love the idea of leading a group and using strong logic to help pin a victory. its not the feeling of "being important" i like so much as the feeling of "hey.. you made this a lot easier by pointing everything out for them.. high five" :P

oh yeah, and i like to smash face.

My first profession was a Warrior, because my friend said that warriors were the easiest to run.

Now I have the warrior, a Monk, a Paragon, a Ritualist, an Ele, and a Ranger. Right now, my fave is a three-way tie between the Paragon, the Ele-a Nuker-and the Ranger...

After reading the description of mesmers in the 2nd booklet with the proph game(if I remember correctly) I knew what class I'm going to play. The more I played the class the more I liked them.

My first was a ranger, which i deleted i then made a warrior.

I have made about 4 PVE warriors only have my main one and the 1st one i made left xD

Ranger. I like doing damage from a distance. I like having a dedicated 20+ second Daze. Wanmoke is my main as far as titles go.

Warrior: I like being in the face of the enemy.

Ranger, because I'm the kind of sissy that likes to smack things at a distance and then run faster than they can catch me.

I actually chose "Mesmer" out of pure ignorance; I got the game, downloaded it, and started to create my character. When I got to choosing a Profession, none of my friends was on to give me instructions, and so I read each description and decided that I wanted to be a Spellcasting class, so that took out two professions (Ranger and Warrior). I didn't want to "manipulate the dead", so out Necromancer. I wasn't skilled or comfortable enough to heal, so that got rid of the Monk. So, it was a toss-up between Mesmer and Elementalist. I was getting in a hurry to play the game, so I chose Mesmer.

I had fun with her ever since. Power to the Mesmers!

I picked ranger because I had this fantasy of being one with the earth... and the fauna... and the flora.

Monk because there weren't any.

I'm always the class that's lacking. Like Sorc to sora in D2.

my monk is my first, favorite and main char.
why? i like having the power to refuse to heal ppl i dont like and let them die (that doesnt happen often tho). but yea, im actually not too sure why i like monk so much. i guess bcuz it can be challenging and fun

i now have 12 pve chars (2 eles, 2 rangers, and 1 of each other). monk is still by far my favorite. followed by ele and mesmer.
ele bcuz its fun to make things explode and mes bcuz its easy to annoy ppl with them

Honestly? Tits.

But then as I actually developed knowledge of the game and other classes I realized that I would pick Ritualist out of them any day of the week.



16 max titles and going strong.

Warrior because bodyblocking > PvE

My oldest = warrior because I thought i could run a palladin and pwn everything in pve!!
then i made a monk a few months later but i dunno exactly why... i guess looking over the party was appealing to me (i did not know about farming or anything so i didnt make a monk just to farm).